Opportunities and challenges

Moving away from these assertions, the aim of this paper is to identify and analyze
the primary issues, opportunities and challenges that eGovernment initiatives present for
developing countries. The insights and results here presented are based on an empirical, web-
based research of 15 case studies undertaken in developing countries (Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, China, Colombia, Guatemala, India, Jamaica, the Philippines) which have already
explored and implemented eGovernment initiatives.

The Workshop on Energy and Transportation took place on January 7-9,
2002, in Washington, DC. This workshop was the second in a series of workshops
that comprise the study Challenges in the Chemical Sciences in the 21st
Century. The purpose of this study was to carry out a survey of the current status
of the chemical sciences, including chemistry and chemical engineering, and its
interfaces with other disciplines such as mechanical engineering, physics, materials
science, and the biological sciences.

For the HR context there is a supplementary and vital research question: ‘How should an
HR manager respond to the competing pressures of recruiting and retaining attractive employees
while at the same time keeping legislative and professional competence intact?’ What stance,
either personal or organisational, gives rise to potential ethical anxieties?
Unanswered here but noted are gender differences for aesthetic labour and also for
sprezzatura, treated historically as the male mind at work.

Further development of banding techniques and study
of prometaphase chromosomes facilitated better identification of these variations with
high resolution. Culturing of free amniocytes was another breakthrough that allowed
the identification of chromosomal abnormalities associated with birth defects. These
classical cytogenetic techniques became mandatory for several clinical conditions and
were adopted by many laboratories as a routine.

Small businesses’ share of private-sector employment is a constant shuffle of employer-employee
matches. Some employees may even consider the size of the firm in their decision to accept an
employment offer or to jump ship. But even though economists may think in terms of individuals
choosing to work for small or large firms, it’s more likely that workers choose an occupation and
then a job that an employer offers. Some occupations are in greater supply in small firms than large
firms. For instance, someone choosing to be a dental hygienist would tend to work for a small...

Much of the literature on carbon offsets (and nearly all aspiring “standards”) point out
that credible offsets must be “real, surplus, permanent, verifiable, and enforceable” – or
some variation of these terms.
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Different sources do not always agree on the definitions
of these criteria, however, and having a “standard” for carbon offsets really depends on
how they are interpreted.

The Experts’ Meeting was held in the Mitsubishi Research Institute and was attended by 81
people (see Appendix I for the list of participants).
Childnet International and the Internet Association, Japan have been co-operating for some
years on issues that affect child safety and participation on the Internet. The two organisations
held a joint meeting at the Second World Congress on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children in Yokohama in December 2001. At that meeting some of the challenges posed by
the new 3G mobile services in Japan were first discussed.

The report this year is far more exhaustive in its scope and reach than the
previous editions and is backed for the first time, by extensive market research
in four significant media markets in the region, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
and Lebanon on shifting media consumption habits. We have expanded the
coverage of the report to include 15 Arab countries, namely, Bahrain, Egypt,
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria,
Sudan, Tunisia, the UAE and the Yemen....

Physical and mechanical properties of several bamboo species have been studied
extensively. Chapter 3 presents the fiber length distribution of Phyllostachys pubescens
at different age, layer and location. Contact angle of different layers of the bottom
portion of three year old bamboo were measured by dynamic contact angle measurement.
Specific gravity and bending properties of bamboo at different ages, horizontal layers,
and height locations were also determined. Also compressive strength at different ages
and height locations were determined.